Mothers of Massive Resistance

White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19976331
AutoresElizabeth Gillespie Mcrae (Associate Professor of History, Western Carolina University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Páginas352
Fecha de publicación2018-01-18
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaMothers of massive resistance (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780190271718.001.0001
OpenAlexW2791018713
Open LibraryOL26945527M
ISBN9780190271718
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas61

Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, this book argues that white segregationist women constituted the grassroots workforce for racial segregation. For decades, they censored textbooks, campaigned against the United Nations, denied marriage certificates, celebrated school choice, and lobbied elected officials. They trained generations, built national networks, collapsed their duties as white mothers with those of citizenship, and experimented with a color-blind political discourse. Their work beyond legislative halls empowered the Jim Crow order with a flexibility and a kind of staying power. With white women at the center of the story, massive resistance and the rise of postwar conservatism rises out of white women’s grassroots work in homes, schools, political parties, and culture. Their efforts began before World War II and the Brown Decision and persisted past the removal of “white only” signs in 1964 and through the anti-busing protests. White women’s segregationist politics involved foreign affairs, economic policy, family values, strict constitutionalism, states’ rights, and white supremacy. It stretched across the nation and overlapped with and helped shape the rise of the New Right. In the end, this history compels us to confront the reign of racial segregation as a national story. It asks us to reconsider who sustained the Jim Crow order, who bears responsibility for the persistence of the nation’s inequities, and what it will take to make good on the nation’s promise of equality

Biology · Citizenship · Grassroots · Hegemony · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Racism · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · White (mutation) · White supremacy · Gender Studies · Law · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society · 20th century · Attitudes · History · Political activity · Race discrimination · race relations · Segregation · Social life and customs · South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) · State & Local · united states · White supremacy movements · White Women · Women · Ecology · Genetics